Metronet Warning?

This whole world is getting silly!

Dear Customer

Increasingly we are being contacted by authorities and legal parties
alerting us to ADSL customers who are allegedly downloading or sharing
content which may not be legal and/or breach copyright.

We would like to use this opportunity to remind all customers to
please ensure that to the best of your ability downloaded/shared
content - whether this be music, films, software etc - is legal. If in
doubt please check the terms of the content supplier/supplied.

Broadband has obviously increased this problem and while this email
may fall on the deaf ears of some customers they should be aware that
we do take any reported or alleged breachs very seriously, as some
customers have already discovered.

While we will not blindly monitor any customer's use of their
Broadband connection we reserve the right to do so and endeavour to
advise customers who we are asked to monitor or log with as much
notice as possible.

We are sending this email not only to serve as a timely reminder but
to also advise that we are obliged to provide legal authorities with
the details of customers who they may ask for. We would therefore ask
customers to be responsible enough to ensure they do not fall foul in
the first place.

Thank you for your attention to this.

Steve wrote:
> This whole world is getting silly!
>

Why is it silly?

On 2005-05-09 18:05:22 +0100, "Beck" <(E-Mail Removed)> said:

> Steve wrote:
>> This whole world is getting silly!
>>
>
> Why is it silly?

Sorry, just pissed off with all this monitoring, vieled threats, nanny
state, can't park in mother and toddler parking space, people reading
500 word data protection agreements over the phone before they can help
you, phone menu loops, ambulance chasing, people covering themselves,
the bastards who nicked the badges off my Alfa.....

Yup, It's been a bad day, please don't take a picture....

Funnily enough after initial 1mb ADSL download frenzy I don't download
anything apart from UK TV, illegal I suppose as is a VCR by same
token.....

Steve

"Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2005050918253743658%stek1961NO@SPAMmaccom...
> On 2005-05-09 18:05:22 +0100, "Beck" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> said:
>
>> Steve wrote:
>>> This whole world is getting silly!
>>>
>>
>> Why is it silly?
>
> Sorry, just pissed off with all this monitoring, vieled threats, nanny
> state, can't park in mother and toddler parking space, people reading
> 500 word data protection agreements over the phone before they can help
> you, phone menu loops, ambulance chasing, people covering themselves,
> the bastards who nicked the badges off my Alfa.....

I agree with all you said except the bit about parking in a mother and
toddler space. If you aren't a mother with a toddler, why do you think you
should be allowed to park there..?!

Ivor

On 9 May 2005 18:25, Steve <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Sorry, just pissed off with all this monitoring, vieled threats, nanny
>state, can't park in mother and toddler parking space,

On reading it, I thought they were being overly generous in suggesting
they would "endeavour to advise customers who we are asked to monitor
or log with as much notice as possible."

Whether you consider it a veiled threat, or warning, it seems to be the
case they are simply stating their policy as a clear reminder that once
they get a complaint, they'll be unable to ignore it, and for one that
gets caught, it's a "banged to rights, guv'nor" situation so one may
have a (big) fine to pay (or, if pirating software, perhaps worse)!

On 2005-05-09 18:53:42 +0100, "Ivor Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> said:

>
> "Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:2005050918253743658%stek1961NO@SPAMmaccom...
>> On 2005-05-09 18:05:22 +0100, "Beck" <(E-Mail Removed)> said:
>>
>>> Steve wrote:
>>>> This whole world is getting silly!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why is it silly?
>>
>> Sorry, just pissed off with all this monitoring, vieled threats, nanny
>> state, can't park in mother and toddler parking space, people reading
>> 500 word data protection agreements over the phone before they can help
>> you, phone menu loops, ambulance chasing, people covering themselves,
>> the bastards who nicked the badges off my Alfa.....
>
> I agree with all you said except the bit about parking in a mother and
> toddler space. If you aren't a mother with a toddler, why do you think
> you should be allowed to park there..?!

Well! I am I single dad with five kids - yes! And I have a Previa. I
once parked in the ''carer' and toddler space at Gym, and some person
in a Merc reported me - I saw him. So they shifted me. Ok I was out of
order.

But in those spaces normally are two seater Lotus Skateboards, huge
Mercs with leather seats, BMW 4x4's - no sign of any child seats. And
this is middle of the day when older kids are at school - or supposed
to be...

Doesn't make it right I know but bad day syndrome!

Steve - Chillin'...

Steve wrote:

>
> Well! I am I single dad with five kids - yes! And I have a Previa. I
> once parked in the ''carer' and toddler space at Gym, and some person
> in a Merc reported me - I saw him. So they shifted me. Ok I was out of
> order.

Those mother and toddler spaces are wrong. If they want to help struggling
single parent parent it should simply be "single parent and toddler spaces".
You were not in the wrong and could probably have challenged it in court :-)

On the Mon, 9 May 2005 20:34:53 +0100, "Beck"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Those mother and toddler spaces are wrong. If they want to help struggling
>single parent parent it should simply be "single parent and toddler spaces".

they should be tols to fuck off and shop else where!
Regards,

Morph.

(Whoever I am today, I may not be tomorrow.)

The message <2005050917491550073%stek1961NO@SPAMmaccom>
from Steve <(E-Mail Removed)> contains these words:

/snip/

> Thank you for your attention to this.

CYA mail.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

On Mon, 09 May 2005 20:59:40 +0100, Dave <glover-(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>On the Mon, 9 May 2005 20:34:53 +0100, "Beck"
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Those mother and toddler spaces are wrong. If they want to help struggling
>>single parent parent it should simply be "single parent and toddler spaces".
>
>they should be tols to fuck off and shop else where!
>Regards,

Who should be told?

Mother and toddler spaces are never filled with mothers, toddlers, or
any combination of the two where I shop. Neither are the disabled
spaces.